Everybody going to work by car in the morning knows how boring it can be. Congestion everywhere and stressed parents trying to get their kids to school on time. To make it more interesting I started to time my drive. By cutting corners, using a free lane to get ahead and then edging my way into the lane I should have been in, not letting anybody out from a side road etc. I managed to cut nearly two minutes of my half hour drive to the office.
But that also got boring in the end. Now I have devised a new strategy. I count smiles from other drivers and road users. I let another car get into the line (1 smile), I do not enter the intersection until I am sure I can make it across before the light turns red (1 smile), I give way to cars waiting to enter from a side road (1 smile), I let cars enter the nearly blocked roundabout (1 smile), and there are many other ways to make life easier for your fellow road user.
My record so far is 7 smiles. My target is to get to 10 smiles on a drive to work before the summer holiday. Can you beat that? And the strange thing is, I actually also have managed to get to work as fast as I used to.
And a smile to start the day on is a nice thing. One day a lady even blew me a finger kiss.
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